Google Webmaster Central becomes IDN domain compatible
I just saw this on IDN Forums that Google Webmaster Central added IDN compatibility.
The main portion most users will be thankful it became IDN compatible is the Google sitemaps. It’s so much better for me to easily be able to see the native Japanese characters in my domains than to see punycode.
From Google’s blog
I’m happy to announce that Webmaster Tools is expanding support for webmasters outside of the English-speaking world, by supporting Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). IDNA provides a way for site owners to have domains that go beyond the domain name system’s limitations of English letters and numbers. Prior to IDNA, Internet host names could only be in the 26 letters of the English alphabet, the numbers 0-9, and the hyphen character. With IDNA support, you’ll now be able to add your sites that use other character sets, and organize them easily on your Webmaster Tools Dashboard.
Read the whole Blog Post here
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/08/written-by-trevor-foucher-webmaster.html
Now they just need to do Analytics next
& fix the fact that IE7 doesn’t show up on IDN domains
and also add IDN compatibility to Adwords display URL….